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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize<br /><br />'A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations.' —Michael Kazin, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, Railroaded, The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White, 9780393342376
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A luminous memoir-in-essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South., Take My Name But Say It Slow, Essays, Thomas Dai, 9781324066378
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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
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An introduction to psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective.<em></em>, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners, Bruce Fink, 9780393707250
on Dec 29
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From the author of <em>The Shallows</em>, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society., Superbloom, How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, Nicholas Carr, 9781324064619
on Dec 27
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From the best-selling author of <em>These Truths</em>, an “exhilarating” (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era., If Then, How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Jill Lepore, 9781324091127
on Dec 21
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A landmark literary event, <em>What Remains </em>collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English., What Remains, The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt, Samantha Rose Hill, Genese Grill, 9781324090526
on Dec 11
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'This will stand as the definitive work on Chile under Pinochet for many years to come.'—<em>Library Journal</em>, A Nation of Enemies, Chile Under Pinochet, Pamela Constable, Arturo Valenzuela, 9780393309850
on Nov 18
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A tech insider explains how capitalism and software development make for such a dangerous mix., Fatal Abstraction, Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software, Darryl Campbell, 9781324078951
on Oct 9
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'Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.'— Erik Spiekermann, typographer, The Book, A...
on Oct 7
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<em>New York Times</em> Bestseller<br />International Bestseller<br /><br />Finalist for the 2024 IACP Award for Food Issues & Matters<br /><br />An <em>Economist</em> Best Book of 2023 • One of <em>Smithsonian</em>'s Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 • A <em>Financial Times</em> Best Food...
on Sep 27
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'<em>The Nvidia Way</em> is a riveting history of Nvidia’s unexpected ascent to the top of the tech sector—and a compelling case for why cofounder Jensen Huang is one of history’s great CEOs.'<br />—Chris Miller, <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author of <em>Chip...
on Sep 20
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'<em>Reagan: His Life and Legend</em> aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds. It’s a thoughtful, absorbing account. It’s also a surprising one.' —Daniel Immerwahr, <em>New Yorker</em><br /><br /> Named one of the 'Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall' by NPR and...
on Sep 10
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A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment., On Settler Colonialism, Ideology, Violence, and Justice, Adam Kirsch, 9781324105343
on Aug 16
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A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth
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'[An] enthralling debut…a beguiling history of Southern California, early industrial development, and U.S. empire.' —<em>Publishers Weekly</em> (starred review)<br /><br />A deeply researched narrative of the creation of the Port of Los Angeles, a central event in America’s...
on Aug 15
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<strong>A baby owl is rescued and rehabilitated, and builds her own family, in this tender and wise picture book.</strong>, Owls in Our Yard!, The Story of Alfie, Carl Safina, 9781324053194
on Aug 2
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Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic., The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, Merve Emre, Virginia Woolf, 9781631496769
on Aug 1
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<p>'Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are...
on Jul 26
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Now a Broadway Play.<br /><br />An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction., Lifespan of a Fact, Jim Fingal, John D'Agata, 9780393340730
on Jul 18
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<strong>War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself.</strong>, The Home I Worked to Make, Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora, Wendy Pearlman, 9781324092230
on Jul 17
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<strong>What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?</strong>, Meet the Neighbors, Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World, Brandon Keim, 9781324007081
on Jul 13
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Winner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize<br /><br /> “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world.” —<em>Washington Post</em>, Falling Awake, Poems,...
on Jul 11
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For the 75th anniversary of <em>1984</em>, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today., Orwell's Ghosts, Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century, Laura Beers, 9781324075080
on Jul 11
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Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory
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Winner of the Society of Architectural Historians' 2013 Antionette Forrester Downing Book Award, this provocative analysis of historic preservation's past and future will transform contemporary understanding of the movement., Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory, Case Studies in Historic...
on Jul 4
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Learn the story—and the sociology—behind the data about today’s families, The Family, Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, Philip N Cohen, 9781324070986
on Jul 1
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Seven key principles from Finland for building a culture of trust in schools around the world., In Teachers We Trust, The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools, Pasi Sahlberg, Timothy D Walker, Andy Hargreaves, 9780393714005
on Jun 30
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The best-selling book of easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world’s premier educational system—now available in paperback., Teach Like Finland, 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms, Pasi Sahlberg, Timothy D Walker, 9781324052616
on Jun 30
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A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban., America Last, The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn,...
on May 30
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The most current introduction to evolutionary biology, with an emphasis on anthropogenic evolution and data literacy., Evolution, Carl T Bergstrom, Lee Alan Dugatkin, 9781324033714
on May 23
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“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of <em>The Master Switch</em>, Technically Wrong, Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats...
on May 15
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A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world., Chop Fry Watch Learn, Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food, Michelle T. King, 9781324021285
on May 15
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A sharp and timely exploration of the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling, from the best-selling author of <em>Four Lost Cities</em>., Stories Are Weapons, Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, Annalee Newitz, 9780393881516
on Apr 26
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Learn the story—and the sociology—behind the data about today’s families, The Family, Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, Philip N Cohen, 9781324070986
on Apr 19
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A <em>New York Times Book Review</em> Editors' Choice<br /> A <em>New Yorker</em> Best Book of 2024 So Far<br /><br />A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do., Who Owns This Sentence?, A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, David Bellos,...
on Mar 31
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What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped)., Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, 9780393868418
on Mar 23
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The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories
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Confronting “the beast within” us all, <em>The </em><em>Werewolf at Dusk</em> celebrates the singular genius of David Small, author of the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Stitches</em>., The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories, David Small, 9781324092827
on Mar 12
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Collecting the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump, this essential volume features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann., The Trump Indictments, The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary, Melissa Murray,...
on Mar 2
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“A work of striking political and legal imagination.” —Aziz Rana, author of <em>The Two Faces of American Freedom</em>, Practical Equality, Forging Justice in a Divided Nation, Robert L Tsai, 9780393358551
on Mar 1
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“A work of striking political and legal imagination.” —Aziz Rana, author of <em>The Two Faces of American Freedom</em>, Practical Equality, Forging Justice in a Divided Nation, Robert L Tsai, 9780393358551
on Feb 23
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“A powerful argument, swept along by Katznelson’s robust prose and the imposing scholarship that lies behind it.”—Kevin Boyle, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, Fear Itself, The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, Ira Katznelson, 9780871407382
on Feb 21
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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism., Taming the Octopus, The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation, Kyle Edward Williams, 9780393867237
on Feb 17
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From side-hustlers to start-ups, freelancers to small business owners, Americans have a special affinity for people who make it on their own. But the dream has a dark side., One Day I'll Work for Myself, The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America, Benjamin C Waterhouse, 9780393868210
on Feb 17
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The <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller, with a new afterword<br /><br />'[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book.' —Joe Klein, <em>New York Times</em>, The Fifth Risk, Undoing Democracy, Michael Lewis, 9780393357455
on Feb 14
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From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom., The Road to Freedom, Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E Stiglitz, 9781324074373
on Feb 9
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From the author of <em>Neuromyths,</em> a revolutionary look at teaching and learning via the logical pathways of the brain., Five Pillars of the Mind, Redesigning Education to Suit the Brain, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, 9780393713213
on Feb 7
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A flexible and comprehensive introduction to the main currents in philosophy of science., Philosophy of Science, The Central Issues, J. A. Cover, Martin Curd, Christopher Pincock, 9780393919035
on Feb 7
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A <em>Financial Times</em> Best Science Book of 2023 • A <em>Science News</em> Favorite Book of 2023 • A <em>Scientific American</em> 2023 Staff Recommendation<br /><br />A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never...
on Jan 25
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize<br /><br />A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world., Nuts and Bolts, Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way, Roma Agrawal, 9781324021520
on Jan 19, 2024
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<p>The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming” and creator of <em>Civilization</em>, featuring his rules of good game design.</p><p>'Sid Meier is a foundation of what gaming is for me today.' — Phil Spencer, head of...
on Dec 25, 2023
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A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A <em>Science News</em> Favorite Book of 2023 • A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A <em>Smithsonian</em> Staff Favorite of 2023 • A <em>New Yorker</em> Best Books of 2023 So Far • Named a Fall 2023...
on Dec 20, 2023
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
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An orientation to affective neuroscience as it relates to educators., Emotions, Learning, and the Brain, Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience, Antonio Damasio, Howard Gardner, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, 9780393709810
on Dec 13, 2023